Abstract

Managing Access to Sensitive Spatial Data at Port of Seattle
Track: Homeland and National Security
Authors: Eric Drenckpohl

The Port of Seattle operates the 6th largest Seaport and the 17th largest airport in the United States. To support this complex business environment the Port of Seattle GIS team hosts well over a hundred spatial data layers in its Enterprise GIS. Due to high requirements in terms of availability and manageability, a highly scalable ArcGIS for Server infrastructure is used for publishing these data.

Some data layers associated with security, infrastructure, and access control are highly sensitive in nature; therefore user access needs to be regulated to the greatest extent possible. Using ArcGIS for Server in combination with sdi.suite securityManager, an Esri partner solution for providing role-based access control (RBAC) for services, the Port of Seattle can apply different, fine-grained access restrictions for different user roles on the same service. This ensures efficient and secure use of well-managed ArcGIS for Server resources.